Monday, October 11, 2010

Early Walk Cycle

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Dick Heumners rendition on Fitz the dog from Out of the Inkwell. I don't know why people consider this stuff primitive. This quote on quote primitive stuff beats the crap out of anything produced these days.

This is how cartoons should be made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ysCS1NB0zE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUimt_zByGk&feature=related

Say John did you know that Fleischer's not Disney made the first sound cartoons.

Fleischer's cycles had a fluidity that most other animators of the day couldn't touch.

This is a minor quibble, but I notice that the arms are not animated: it's a stiff-arm walk cycle. That may have been intentional in context, I don't know. But I wonder whether this cycle would have looked more natural with swinging arms.